Me in my Violet Femmes gear I first learned to skate when I was a kid. My parents would take me and my siblings over to the neighbor's pasture pond where we'd don our hand-me-down skates and play around on the ice until the hot chocolate in the thermos ran out. Sometimes the neighbor's family would come out as well and a game of pick-up hockey would start. This was my first memory of hockey, and the sport always kind of intrigued me. Fast forward, in 2024 I learned about a pr